January 28, 2009 by John Ericson

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Want to Hear Some Mozart 3 Cadenzas?


I was recently sent a link to a Spanish horn website, www.soytrompista.com. My Spanish is minimal, but I was interested to check it out as it had some recordings on it.

What I found was one section of the site is devoted to recordings of cadenzas. For example on this page there are there are nearly 50 different recordings of cadenzas for Mozart 3! Sort of a “hornexcerpts.org” for cadenzas. Worth checking out!

UPDATE: The site, sadly, seems to be dead, and I removed all the links. This particular part of the site was an interesting concept.

Lacking that, at least I can offer you this more recent link to some Mozart cadenzas.

http://www.funbrass.com/cadenzas-for-mozart-concertos.html

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Want to Hear Some Mozart 3 Cadenzas?
Published on January 28, 2009 by John Ericson

Archived under: Horn study, Inspiration & The Big Picture, Technology & Digital Culture   |   Cadenzas, Mozart
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